Kennedy Seat reports that Joe Kennedy, independent US Senate candidate in MA, has picked up two endorsements, one from a group called Bring Home the Politicians and another from the Free Patriot Press. 

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NECN reports: Joe Kennedy Previous IPR coverage Darryl Perry: ‘A Kennedy Even Libertarians can Support: Joe Kennedy for US Senate’ Posted by Paulie 12/21 First two debates set in Kennedy successor race Posted by Paulie 12/21 Why challenge the two-party system? Somebody has to do it Posted by d.eris, 12/20 Green Party issues press release [...]

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Posted by Darryl Perry at Free Patriot Press: In less than a month voters in Massachusetts will go to the polls to elect a Senator to replace the late Edward “Teddy” Kennedy. There will be three candidates on the ballot, but only one man that, if elected, will stand up to the 99 other Senators [...]

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h/t Liberty Point Posted in NewsObserver.com by Michael Munger: DURHAM — I hear people complain they can’t afford insurance. They need to realize that the real problem is they can’t afford health care. The U.S. has the world’s most expensive health care, $8,000 per person per year, eating up 16 percent of our GDP. There [...]

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LP blog and email list: Dear Friend of Liberty, It’s the time of year when we see “Happy Holidays!” everywhere. I know some people don’t like that phrase, but I think it indicates the variety of religious practices we have in America, which in turn shows that we enjoy significant freedom of religion. The Libertarian [...]

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Kathie Durbin writes in The Columbian: John McKibbin, former president of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and a former three-term Clark County commissioner, is considering running for Congress as an independent candidate. McKibbin said in a statement that he is among many Southwest Washington residents who are frustrated with both political parties over their [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News: The Working Families Party has filed its paperwork in Vermont to be a ballot-qualified minor party. There are now Working Families on the ballot in six states. The other five are Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina (the party in Connecticut is ballot-qualified for some offices, including all [...]

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Posted in Ballot Access News: On November 12, New Hampshire State Senator Theodore Gatsas resigned his seat in the New Hampshire Senate, because he had just been elected Mayor of Manchester. Shortly afterwards, the New Hampshire Executive Council said there will be a special election to fill that empty seat on February 16. It said [...]

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Boston.com reports: BOSTON—The final stretch in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy kicks off with two scheduled debates. The debates will include Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy — no relation to Edward Kennedy. The first meeting of all three [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org by Natividad Carrera Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the new Bull Connor Thousands of undocumented treated like criminals On Dec. 15, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) introduced HR 4321, the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009,” into the House with 89 cosponsors. The Obama administration has stated that it [...]

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Posted at The Socialist WebZine by Matthew Andrews Since October 2007, the Socialist Party of Boston has been using meetup.com to schedule meetings and events http://www.meetup.com/bostonsocialists. It’s a convenient way to post events and receive RSVPs to anticipate attendance. Meetup is also open to the public and new people regularly find us and “join” us [...]

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Posted at Liberty For All by George Phillies Our Libertarian Party stands at its golden moment. American voters are disgusted with their major parties, the parties of perpetual war, perpetual crony bailouts, and perpetual expansion of our national debt. They know Washington politicians don’t care what their constituents think. The people of America crave an [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side: John Keenan our friend John Keenan was asked this question recently: . . . now would seem a good time for a third party to come forward with some good progressive ideas that the majority of the people of the country could get behind. Maybe said third party could [...]

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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch From Vince LaMie, candidate for Illinois State Representative, 105th District: There is going to be opposition for the first time in the general election for state representative in the 105th district. I am Vince LaMie from Woodworth, IL and this is my first venture into state politics. [...]

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Sharing with the IPR community an opinion piece I wrote as a third party activist on my blog Onthewilderside.com. The piece analyzes what NY State Senate Majority Leader John Sampson might mean by the term “bipartisanship”, and sets up a contest based on some of Sampson’s statements. The contest is called the “We Want More Than Bipartisanship Contest”.

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[Cross-posted from Poli-Tea, on Paulie's suggestion.] While the rise of the tea party movement demonstrates the rift between the conservative grassroots and the Republican Party, the health care debate has revealed the fault lines within the Democrats’ center-left coalition, pitting liberal and progressive activists against the party establishment, as commentators on both the left and [...]

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The Dover-Sherborn Press interviews Joe Kennedy: Libertarian candidate Joseph Lewis Kennedy — no relation to the famed political clan —says he offers a fiscally conservative, socially accepting alternative to the two major party candidates vying for the state’s vacant Senate seat. “Somebody has do it. If I didn’t do it, we’d be stuck with a [...]

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Posted at Kn@ppster: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, they say; and it would explain a lot, including his latest war crime. C’mon, think about it … have you ever seen them together? Labels: Barack Obama, Hideki Tojo

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Posted at On The Wilder Side by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer from Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Dec. 19, 2009 I dreamed I saw Casey Sheehan last night alive as you and me Says I, “But Casey, you’re two years dead,” “I never died,” says he, “I never died,” says he. [...]

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Posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: Batesville resident Kenton Adler has formally announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives from the First District of Arkansas. Nominated by The Green Party of Arkansas, he will likely face incumbent Democrat Congressman Marion Berry and Republican hopeful Rick Crawford in the 2010 election. [...]

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